Idea of National integration envisaged by Indira more relevant today than ever before: Sonia

NEW DELHI: Charging the present NDA Government at the Centre with rewriting history, imposing falsehood and unscientific ideas on people and stifling independent thinking, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on Tuesday said that the idea of National integration envisaged by late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is more relevant today than ever before.

In her address at a function to award  the Indira Gandhi award for National integration to Carnatic vocalist S M Krishna, where Ms Gandhi could not be present due to her ill health and her speech was read out by her son and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi in her absence, the Congress president said, ”In today’s times, when our country finds itself increasingly divided in the name of a narrow nationalism, the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration is a recognition of the values she stood for.

”Her life and convictions inspired this award, which is given to those distinguished sons and daughters of India whose work, beyond its intrinsic merits, seeks to protect and project the very soul of this land. Unity and peace, not division and conflict, are the lights that guided our awardees, in thought as well as action, just as they guided her. ” (AGENCIES)

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